Americans for Prosperity make local stop

Published: Monday, February 18, 2013 at 11:16 AM.

CAPE
CARTERET
— A stop in
Carteret
County
was part of a three-day kick-off of a conservative group’s new initiative focused on spending cuts in
Washington
.

Dallas Woodhouse, state director for Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina, spoke at the monthly meeting of the Carteret County Men’s Republican Club as part of this week’s events announcing the organization’s Spending Accountability Project.

The group traveled around the state Tuesday through Thursday to introduce the initiative to put pressure on the state’s congressional delegation to stop overspending.

After a day of visiting district offices of congressmen, including the offices of Rep. Walter Jones and Sen. Kay Hagan in Greenville, Woodhouse asked those gathered Wednesday night in Cape Carteret to join the organization in its efforts.

“I’m asking you to help us send this message to Washington,” Woodhouse said.

As part of that effort, AFP invited everyone in attendance to sign cards to be delivered to the congressional delegation encouraging spending cuts and asking Congress not to block $85 billion in upcoming automatic federal spending cuts.

CAPECARTERET — A stop in CarteretCounty was part of a three-day kick-off of a conservative group’s new initiative focused on spending cuts in Washington.

Dallas Woodhouse, state director for Americans for Prosperity-North Carolina, spoke at the monthly meeting of the Carteret County Men’s Republican Club as part of this week’s events announcing the organization’s Spending Accountability Project.

The group traveled around the state Tuesday through Thursday to introduce the initiative to put pressure on the state’s congressional delegation to stop overspending.

After a day of visiting district offices of congressmen, including the offices of Rep. Walter Jones and Sen. Kay Hagan in Greenville, Woodhouse asked those gathered Wednesday night in Cape Carteret to join the organization in its efforts.

“I’m asking you to help us send this message to Washington,” Woodhouse said.

As part of that effort, AFP invited everyone in attendance to sign cards to be delivered to the congressional delegation encouraging spending cuts and asking Congress not to block $85 billion in upcoming automatic federal spending cuts.

“They need to hear from you,” Woodhouse said.

During his comments Woodhouse also spoke about the decreased regulation, tax reform and limiting unemployment benefits.

“We want people to get a work check and not a dependency check,” he said.

As AFP announced the Spending Accountability Project, it also expressed its support for Gov. Pat McCrory’s decision not to create a state healthcare exchange or expand the state Medicaid program.

At the stop in Carteret County, Woodhouse said decisions by the governor and GOP-led General Assembly such as rejecting federal money for the extension of unemployment benefits, declining to expand Medicaid and not creating a state-based or federal partnership health insurance exchange is setting an example.

“North Carolina is going to send a message to Washington and other states across the country that yes we can get our fiscal house in order,” he said.

The North Carolina AFP chapter is the first in country to launch the Spending Accountability Project.

The three-day kick-off closed Thursday in the Wilmington area with an action breakfast and visits to district offices of Sen. Richard Burr and Rep. Mike McIntyre to deliver signed petition cards.